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briefless

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briefless [ˈbriːflɪs]
adj
(Law) (said of a barrister) without clients
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Adj.1.briefless - (of lawyers or barristers) lacking clients
patronless, unpatronised, unpatronized - having little patronage or few clients; "a restaurant unpatronized by the elite"


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What, I asked in my own mind, can cause this obsequiousness on the part of Miss Toady; has Briefless got a county court, or has his wife had a fortune left her?
Vanity Fair by Thackeray, William Makepeace View in context
He relates to us all the various steps by which his office-boy rose to be the "ruler of the queen's navee," and explains to us how the briefless barrister managed to become a great and good judge, "ready to try this breach of promise of marriage.
Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow by Jerome, Jerome K. View in context
She half closed her eyes, and indulged herself in a fascinating picture of a briefless barrister lodged in a garret, writing immortal novels by the light of a farthing dip.
Night and Day by Woolf, Virginia View in context
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